1890's Jugendstil Art Nouveau High Carat 18K Gold Lady Rosecut Diamond Pendant
Located in EINDHOVEN, NB
This circa 1900 Jugendstil pendant is designed as a coin-like round medallion in high-carat yellow
Diamond, Platinum, 18k Gold
Wilhelm Schiller & Son, Early 1900 Austria Majolica Jugendstil Vase
By Wilhelm Schiller & Son
Located in Brescia, IT
cartouche in the clay at bottom: WS&S / 762. Original Jugendstil pottery piece. Moresque decor Excellent
Ceramic
$11,474
H 20.48 in W 33.08 in D 15.16 in
Jugendstil Black Beech Grey Vintage Small Bench Josef Hoffmann circa 1905 Vienna
By Josef Hoffmann
Located in Vienna, AT
Jugendstil black beech grey suede leather small bench designed by Josef Hoffmann circa 1905, Vienna
Suede, Beech
$3,986
H 12.29 in W 6.89 in D 17.13 in
Jugendstil Thonet Brown Beech Shoe Stool by Josef Hoffmann attr. c 1907, Vienna
By Thonet
Located in Vienna, AT
Jugendstil Thonet brown beech shoe stool was designed circa 1907 and executed by Gebr. Thonet
Beech
$2,500
H 3.75 in W 8.27 in D 5.52 in
Candelabra in Iron, German, 1890, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty.
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Candelabra Sign: S Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and
Iron
Early 20th Century Bronze Jugend Table lamp, Denmark Circa 1900’s
Located in Valby, 84
An elegant and rare Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) table lamp crafted in solid bronze, Denmark, circa
Bronze
$1,700
H 9.25 in Dm 5.91 in
Masterpiece sculpture, Mother´s love, Ernst Wahliss Royal Vienna, 1900, Austria
By Ernst Wahliss, Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Wien, AT
Beautiful porcelain work by Ernst Wahliss, depicting a mother with child, probably Aphrodite with armor, made by Royal Vienna around 1900 in Austria. This exceptionally rare work is...
Porcelain
Jugend vase by Karl Svensson, Höganäs, stoneware, Sweden, early 1900's
By Höganäs Keramik
Located in Stockholm, SE
A very rare fish head vase made by Karl Svensson for Höganäs, Sweden. Made in the early 20th century. A large true Jugend ceramic vase glazed in green. Adorned with fishes in relief...
Ceramic
$1,150
H 6.3 in W 6.11 in D 4.73 in
Michael Andersen & Son 'Ma&S', Rare Ceramic Vase, Jugend Early 20th C, Denmark
By Michael Andersen & Son
Located in Stockholm, SE
Rare, decorative vase by Michael Andersen & Son (MA&S) with beautiful glaze in different colors (yellow, green, grey..) flows down the rounded shape. The upper part has decorativ...
Ceramic
Table Lamp Jugendstil brass Denmark 1900's
Located in New York, NY
Table Lamp Jugendstil brass Denmark 1900's New sockets and rewired Shade not included
Brass
+8ctw Rose Gold 585 Padparadsha Sapphire Antique Jugendstil Rose gold Ring '10's
Located in Wiesbaden, DE
the Jugendstil timeframe. Has a beautiful flourishing Art Nouveau motif on the size and is very unique
Sapphire, Rose Gold, 14k Gold
Otto Wagner Stadtbahn Ceiling Lamp
By Otto Wagner
Located in Wien, AT
, Jugendstil Floral Funktional; Herrsching 1984, S. 144, Abb. 296.
Brass
Original I. S. Henry Tall Back Chair London, 1895
Located in Rome, IT
Important I. S. Henry tall back chair, exceptional original condition, London 1895. Mahogany (solid), polished, brownish original leather, upholstery button nails, strikingly high b...
Wood
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H 37.01 in W 18.9 in D 16.93 in
Original Josef Hoffman Jugendstil Vienna Secessionist Chair by Josef &Jacob Kohn
By Woka Lamps, Josef Hoffmann, J & J Kohn & Mundus
Located in Vienna, AT
Kohn, in about 1910. Vera Behal, Möbel des Jugendstils S 141, Moderne Bauformen, 1913, Bd XII, S 165
Alabaster
Beautiful Table Lamp from the 1920's, Austria- Czech Republic
Located in Vienna, Austria
This is a rare table lamp from the 1920's. Based on functional design,it is composed of a massive brass base with mahogany feet. The column is made up of turned cherry and stained b...
Wood
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H 76.78 in W 35.44 in D 11.42 in
Art Nouveau Credenza in style of Otto Wytrlik, by Jac. Kain (Vienna, 1905)
Located in Wien, AT
Wohnungseinrichtung", in: Innen-Dekoration, Jg. 13, 1902; Innen-Dekoration, Jg. 14, 1903; Behal, Möbel des Jugendstils
Brass
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H 83.47 in Dm 21.66 in
August Kitschelt´s Erben / Exceptional Coat And Hat Stand / Vienna / around 1900
By August Kitschelt's Erben
Located in Vienna, AT
AUGUST KITSCHELT'S ERBEN designed and executed by: August Kitschelt's Erben, Vienna, around 1900 brass, excellent original condition, excellent Viennese craftsmanship H 212 ...
Brass
August Kitschelt`s Erben / A Coat And Hat Stand / Vienna ca. 1900
By August Kitschelt's Erben
Located in Vienna, AT
AUGUST KITSCHELT'S ERBEN designed and executed by: August Kitschelt's Erben, Vienna, around 1900 brass, very nice original condition, metal drop tray missing, excellent Viennes...
Brass
Wardrobe by Richard Riemerschmid
Located in New York, NY
The design of this large cabinet by Richard Riemerschmid is typical of early Munich Jugendstil. The
Wrought Iron
Loetz Red Lidded Jar by Hans Bolek, circa 1916
By Hans Bolek
Located in Vienna, AT
IV Jugendstil in Böhmen, Passauer Glasmuseum, S.131
Glass
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H 30.32 in W 63.39 in D 30.32 in
Art Nouveau Livingroom Set, Marcel Kammerer & Otto Prutscher for Thonet, 1910
By Thonet-Mundus, Marcel Kammerer
Located in Wien, AT
Exemplare dieser außergewöhnlichen Spitzenleistung des Wiener Jugendstils. (D & S Antiquitäten, i. A. Ursula
Metal, Brass
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H 9.45 in Dm 5.52 in
Art Nouveau Table Lamp Glass Bronze Jugendstil Handcraft Tiffany Style 1950's
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Antwerpen, BE
Tiffany style table lamp, made around 1950s. Many models, similar to Tiffany, are real eye-catchers for any kind of interior. This table lamp is in fine condition with minor signs of...
Gold, Bronze
$20,000 / item
H 30.5 in Dm 72 in
Large Carved Belgian Bluestone Round Dining/Center Table w/ Baluster-Form Base
Located in San Francisco, CA
Made from Belgian bluestone with a honed finish and embedded with fossils, the table is comprised of a thick round top with dupont edge and baluster-form support on an octagonal plin...
Stone
$2,898
H 10.75 in W 5.25 in D 4.4 in
Striking Art Nouveau Ceramic and Bronze-Mounted Vase in Victor Horta Style
By Victor Horta
Located in Lisse, NL
Top condition and pure elegance Art Nouveau vase. For the collectors of museum quality and condition Art Nouveau ceramics. This stunning Art Nouveau vase is decorated with the mos...
Bronze
Original of the Time Josef Hoffmann Jacob&Josef Kohn Coffee Table
By Josef Hoffmann, Woka Lamps, Jacob & Josef Kohn
Located in Vienna, AT
A petite coffee table by Josef Hoffmann from 1905 made by J&J Kohn in beechwood.
Beech
$2,400
H 68.51 in W 142.13 in D 0.79 in
B22 Japanese Antiques 6panels, Silver Paper, folding Screen, black edge
Located in Niiza, JP
Silver foil folding screen Material: Paper pasted on wooden frame 1 piece: Width 595 x Height 1740 x Depth 18 mm Expanded size: Width 3610 mm Folded size: Width 615 x Height 1740 x D...
Paper
$821Sale Price|20% Off
H 12.6 in Dm 5.91 in
Pair of Dutch Art Deco Vases, Hand-Painted Gouda Style Ceramic with Bold Glaze
By PZH - Plateelbakkerij Zuid-Holland
Located in AMSTERDAM, NL
Striking in both form and palette, this pair of Dutch Art Deco vases captures the bold geometry and decorative innovation that defined early 20th-century ceramic design. Glazed in a ...
Ceramic, Earthenware
$1,993
H 1.58 in W 4.34 in D 2.37 in
By and Documented Gabriella Crespi Gilded "Walnut" Salt Spice Cellar, Italy 1970
By Gabriella Crespi
Located in Roma, IT
Exceptional and unique half walnut-shaped salt or spice container made in finely sculpted bronze and gilded in gold. Designed by Gabriella Crespi in Italy during the 1970s, the item ...
Bronze
French Art Nouveau Signed Botanical Emile Gallé Cameo Glass Vase circa, 1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
French Art Nouveau Emile Gallé small cameo vase depicting blossoming flowers in purple and blue over orange/yellow, with fine internal polishing to highlight the blue in the flowers ...
Art Glass
On Hold|$28,989
H 28.75 in W 70.87 in D 48.04 in
Set of dining table and cabinets by Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Piacenza, Italy
The rare set is designed by Angelo Mangiarotti for Arredamenti Sabatini Genova in 1967. The set consists of 5 items : table cm 180x122 2 cabinets cm 72x52 h 65 (shelves) 2 cabinets ...
Marble
Edwardian Mahogany Hat & Coat Hall Stand
By Matthews Company
Located in Altrincham, GB
Edwardian Mahogany Hat & Coat Hall Stand of Art Nouveau Design - with original stained glass inset panels and coat hooks all of art nouveau form, replacement drip trays - Matthews of...
Stained Glass, Mahogany
Thonet - Michael Thonet - Shelf - No. 42 - Beech
By Thonet, Michael Thonet
Located in Budapest, HU
RENOVATION AVAILABLE: THIS PIECE CAN BE PROFESSIONALLY RENOVATED TO MEET YOUR PREFERENCES. OPTIONS INCLUDE CUSTOM FINISHES, UPHOLSTERY, AND SURFACE RESTORATION. PLEASE INQUIRE ABOUT ...
Beech
$2,890
H 43.7 in W 11.799 in D 11.799 in
20th Century Art Nouveau Pedestal or Column, ebonized /handcarved, AT ca. 1900
Located in Lichtenberg, AT
Fantastic looking, ebonized Art Nouveau pedestal/ column from the early period in Austria around 1900. A beautiful straight shaped pedestal, hand carved out of solid beech wood with ...
Beech
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Glass "Red Sunset Vase" by Daum Frères
By Daum
Located in London, GB
"Red Sunset Vase" by Daum Frères A striking and unusual early 20th Century cameo glass vase enamel painted with a green forest landscape against a fiery yellow and orange field, Sig...
Glass
Pair 19th Century Greek Attic Style Terracotta Volure-Kraters
Located in Houston, TX
A pair of large two handled 19th Century Attic style volute kraters.
Terracotta
Original Josef Hoffmann & Jacob & Josef Kohn "24-Ball" Table #1263
By Jacob & Josef Kohn, Josef Hoffmann, Woka Lamps
Located in Vienna, AT
Six balls connect each of the four columns, bent beech and plywood, dyed to rosewood and polished, surface slightly refreshed, top with glass, base covered with very fine hammered br...
Beech, Plywood
A Pair of Art Deco Tower Display Cases
Located in Chicago, IL
This extraordinary pair of display shelves exudes 1940's Deco elegance and refinement. They are square and austere, except for the quietly curved plinths at their bases. The exterio...
Walnut
Pierre-Paul Montagnac Cabinet
By Pierre-Paul Montagnac
Located in Philadelphia, PA
French 1940s cabinet by Pierre-Paul Montagnac. Model exhibited at the 1945 Salon d'Automne. This cabinet is a masterpiece of French cabinet-making designed by Pierre-Paul Montagnac....
Metal
In its sinuous lines and flamboyant curves inspired by the natural world, antique Art Nouveau furniture reflects a desire for freedom from the stuffy social and artistic strictures of the Victorian era. The Art Nouveau movement developed in the decorative arts in France and Britain in the early 1880s and quickly became a dominant aesthetic style in Western Europe and the United States.
ORIGINS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN
CHARACTERISTICS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN
ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
ANTIQUE ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
Art Nouveau — which spanned furniture, architecture, jewelry and graphic design — can be easily identified by its lush, flowing forms suggested by flowers and plants, as well as the lissome tendrils of sea life. Although Art Deco and Art Nouveau were both in the forefront of turn-of-the-20th-century design, they are very different styles — Art Deco is marked by bold, geometric shapes while Art Nouveau incorporates dreamlike, floral motifs. The latter’s signature motif is the "whiplash" curve — a deep, narrow, dynamic parabola that appears as an element in everything from chair arms to cabinetry and mirror frames.
The visual vocabulary of Art Nouveau was particularly influenced by the soft colors and abstract images of nature seen in Japanese art prints, which arrived in large numbers in the West after open trade was forced upon Japan in the 1860s. Impressionist artists were moved by the artistic tradition of Japanese woodblock printmaking, and Japonisme — a term used to describe the appetite for Japanese art and culture in Europe at the time — greatly informed Art Nouveau.
The Art Nouveau style quickly reached a wide audience in Europe via advertising posters, book covers, illustrations and other work by such artists as Aubrey Beardsley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Alphonse Mucha. While all Art Nouveau designs share common formal elements, different countries and regions produced their own variants.
In Scotland, the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh developed a singular, restrained look based on scale rather than ornament; a style best known from his narrow chairs with exceedingly tall backs, designed for Glasgow tea rooms. Meanwhile in France, Hector Guimard — whose iconic 1896 entry arches for the Paris Metro are still in use — and Louis Majorelle produced chairs, desks, bed frames and cabinets with sweeping lines and rich veneers.
The Art Nouveau movement was known as Jugendstil ("Youth Style") in Germany, and in Austria the designers of the Vienna Secession group — notably Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria Olbrich — produced a relatively austere iteration of the Art Nouveau style, which mixed curving and geometric elements.
Art Nouveau revitalized all of the applied arts. Ceramists such as Ernest Chaplet and Edmond Lachenal created new forms covered in novel and rediscovered glazes that produced thick, foam-like finishes. Bold vases, bowls and lighting designs in acid-etched and marquetry cameo glass by Émile Gallé and the Daum Freres appeared in France, while in New York the glass workshop-cum-laboratory of Louis Comfort Tiffany — the core of what eventually became a multimedia decorative-arts manufactory called Tiffany Studios — brought out buoyant pieces in opalescent favrile glass.
Jewelry design was revolutionized, as settings, for the first time, were emphasized as much as, or more than, gemstones. A favorite Art Nouveau jewelry motif was insects (think of Tiffany, in his famed Dragonflies glass lampshade).
Like a mayfly, Art Nouveau was short-lived. The sensuous, languorous style fell out of favor early in the 20th century, deemed perhaps too light and insubstantial for European tastes in the aftermath of World War I. But as the designs on 1stDibs demonstrate, Art Nouveau retains its power to fascinate and seduce.
There are ways to tastefully integrate a touch of Art Nouveau into even the most modern interior — browse an extraordinary collection of original antique Art Nouveau furniture on 1stDibs, which includes decorative objects, seating, tables, garden elements and more.
Aside from his iconic commercial prints, the Czech artist endeavored to make works that spoke to the soul.
From vibrant to subtle, elegant to cheeky, enamel jewelry encompasses a wide range of colors and styles, and there are almost as many techniques for creating these distinctive pieces.
The first art and design movement of the 20th century was all about celebrating beauty of women and nature.